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ShakespeaRe-Told: The Taming of the Shrew (2005)
dear god, i loved it
Granted it may have taken a few liberties with the plot, But in this day and age were children aren't even reading let alone Shakespeare, its good enough to get the idea/plots roughly into their heads surely. I loved it, stupidly loved it. At the end I was hyperventilating with joy. i haven't experience a TV induced high like that since North and South but even that was less extreme! normally when you want couple to get together all you get is a kiss, when they get married and have triplets and she gets her dream job well that just about make my week. of course the fact their married with children no more means their relationship will last than if they didn't. so really there is no reason to see that as a benefit, but i do! wasn't their honeymoon villa amazing-want it want it now i thought both Rufus and Shirley were fabulous hell everything was. Oh god I have no emotional backbone.Ah well, now you all think I'm mad I'll go of and watch it again (yes I videoed it -a good plan with hindsight)
Pride & Prejudice (2005)
Disgrace to the novel and Jane Austen
I went to see suspecting I would hate it, I did. Everything about it was wrong; it was like they were filming a different book. Granted the locations and houses very lovely (if not a little miscast-yes even the house were wrong for their parts) Keira was too modern, dull and frankly I found it unpleasant to watch her. Were everyone else sees Darcy as a sex god the writer of this saw him as sexually frustrated and inadequate. Bingley was stupid and dippy (he isn't meant to be) and the Bennett's were shown to be destitute and for some unknown reason farmers, this is incorrect and ludicrous. The very idea that Mr Bennett would answer the door in his night gear with the rest of the family dressed in their underwear to in the middle of the night is stupid. They had servants. Mr Collins was not repulsive and greasy merely stupid and obnoxious, Georgina Darcy was ugly and old and Miss Bingley wore a sleeveless dress, what! As if! It is Historically inaccurate and even the ending is unsatisfying. I could go on for days. I hated it so much as not only was it nothing like the book but I fear that for many people it will be their fist experience of this great novel and it will give them the worst possible idea of it. The BBC version is so superior it's not even funny and everything about this version is an insult to its memory. In short if you must see it be sure you have read the book first or seen the BBC version other wise you will be lead done the deluded road that this is what it's like, which its not!